@softspark/dsh-web-search-searxng

Configuration

Key	Default	Meaning
baseURL	required	Absolute URL of the instance, without /search. No default: a guess would send queries somewhere you did not choose.
timeoutMs	15000	Upper bound on one search. Between 1000 and 120000.
language	unset	UI language passed through, e.g. pl or en-US.
safeSearch	0	SearXNG safe-search level: 0 off, 1 moderate, 2 strict.
categories	unset	Comma-separated categories, e.g. general,it.
engines	unset	Comma-separated engine names, narrowing what the instance queries.

Unset optional keys are omitted from the request rather than sent empty, so the instance's own defaults apply.

The instance must be allowed to answer in JSON

SearXNG does not enable the JSON output format by default. Without it, the instance answers the same URL with a rendered results page and HTTP 200 — which would read as "no results" if this provider did not check. Add it to the instance's settings.yml:

search:
  formats:
    - html
    - json

The provider names this fix in the error when it sees HTML, so the failure is one you can act on rather than one you have to guess at.

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